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by Ramdev · Published January 9, 2022
For VxFS versions previous to version 3.4, the only real conversion method involves a backup of the UFS data and a restore of the data to a new VxFS filesystem. It is impossible to “convert” a filesystem without some downtime.
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by Ramdev · Published June 12, 2014 · Last modified August 5, 2016
Re-adding a disk is same procedure as replacing a failed disk, except we use same disk. We have to detach the disk from vxvm, so that the VxVM will detect the disk failure and will cease access to the failed disk. You can then perform...
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by Ramdev · Published July 10, 2021
A Plex will be shown in RECOVER state if its contents are out-of-date with respect to the volume. This can happen if a disk containing one or more plex’s subdisks has been replaced or reattached. If a Plex is shown as being in this state, it...
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by Ramdev · Published January 29, 2022
Sometimes, when failed fibre channel disks are replaced in arrays or servers under Veritas Volume Manager control, duplicate entries appear in the vxdisk list output. While Veritas indicates in TechNote 236062 that the ultimate solution is a reconfiguration reboot (or two), recycling the host is often...
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by Ramdev · Published May 12, 2011 · Last modified August 22, 2015
VERITAS Volume Manager 3.x/4.x: Unable to Recognize Newly-Added Disks. A few reasons why this occurs: The command vxdctl enable should be run, to rescan the host for any newly-added disks.
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by Ramdev · Published August 8, 2021
This is a continuation post for our previous post Beginner’s Lesson – VERITAS Volume Manager for Solaris Learning VxVM administration will be much easier by understanding below three things> 1. How Veritas Volume Manager treats Operating System Native Disks into Veritas Volumes 2. What are the...
The most common Veritas Volume Manager Operation that we do in everyday sysadmin job is, resizing Veritas volumes. In this below post we are discussing some of the scenarios to resize different types of veritas volumes.
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by Ramdev · Published June 4, 2011 · Last modified August 22, 2015
Possible reasons for a boot failure: The boot device cannot be opened. The system cannot be be booted from unusable or stale plexes. A UNIX partition is invalid. There are incorrect entries in /etc/vfstab. Configuration files are missing or damaged
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by Ramdev · Published April 8, 2021
Hot swapping of a failed disk is fairly straight procedure if the disks are regular SCSI disks, but for the Fibre Channel (FC) disks we should follow different procedure for hot swaping. Below specific procedure should be used when replacing one of the internal disks in...
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by Ramdev · Published August 10, 2015 · Last modified August 23, 2015
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